November 20, 1983
On this date in Missouri History: The made-for-TV-drama, The Day After, captivated audiences while showing the fictional destruction of Kansas City.
November 19, 1981
This date in Missouri history: The Rolling Stones' Tattoo You tour played in front of 18,700 raucous fans at the old Checkerdome in St. Louis.
November 18, 1818
This date in Missouri history. A group of citizens calling themselves the Smithton Company purchased from the government the land which is now Columbia, MO.
Relics: Stars and Stripes Museum and Library
Since the first Stars and Stripes was printed in Bloomfield in 1861, the Department of Defense designated Bloomfield as the birthplace of the Stars and Stripes newspaper. The Missouri Stars and Stripes was printed only once during the Civil War. It wouldn’t see publication again until World War I, when it was an eight-page weekly. Publication stopped after WWI, then for the first nine months of World War II, it was restarted.
November 8, 1923
On this date in Missouri history, Jack Kilby was born in Jefferson City. He grew up to invent the integrated circuit—and changed the lives of every American.
November 7, 1791
This date in Missouri history. A new church in Les Petites Cotes (Village of the Little Hills) was named San Carlos Borremeo on this day. The village around the church changed its name on this day also. It was named for the church and called San Carlos de Misury. In 1803 it was changed to St. Charles.
November 6, 1984
This date in Missouri history. Missouri voters approve the Missouri Lottery, turning out in droves to pass Amendment 5, which repealed a section of the state's constitution that prohibited a lottery.
November 4, 1921
On this date in Missouri history. Evangelist Billy Sunday told a crowd at the St. Louis Coliseum, “The world is going to hell so fast you can smell the smoke as old Satan stamps his foot on the accelerator.”
November 2, 1948
This date in Missouri and U.S. history: The Show-Me State's Harry S. Truman was elected president.
October 24, 1962
This date in Missouri history: Schools in Missouri are practicing emergency plans in case of a nuclear attack as the Cuban Missile Crisis heats up, affecting businesses and schools across the state.